Influencing Skills
An interesting course which explores the key skills of effective influencers and how we can influence whilst maintaining integrity and trust. This course will encourage you to recognise effective influencing taking place through many interactions from a variety of different drivers. To be an influential person among your team or in your organisation as a whole, you will need to develop a broad range of skills and techniques, and understand the many aspects involved influencing the people around you.
Influencing Skills Courses FAQs
How will influencing skills help me?
Influence seldom happens in one action or moment. You will learn a range of ways in which influence is brought to bare and develop a complete approach to enable you to increase your influence. This skill is massively beneficial in every walk of life.
Will this help me to negotiate better?
Understanding influence is a core skill in being able to negotiate successful outcomes, so yes it will help. There are however more techniques that the good negotiator uses, so check out our negotiation courses too.
Who Is This Course For?
For anyone who would like to be more effective at influencing others in different situations.
What Will You Learn?
- The definition of the influencer
- What makes a good influencer?
- The value of inclusion and integrity
- How to use the hidden skills of effective influencers
- Appreciation of other perspectives
- The importance of planning and preparation
- Understanding motivating factors
- How to put it all into practice
Latest Influencing Skills Resources and Guidance
You’re the Weather System in Your Team—What Climate Are You Creating?
Have you ever noticed how a team meeting can shift the moment a stressed leader walks in? The energy drops. People become guarded. Creativity stalls. This isn't coincidence—it's emotional contagion, and as a leader, you're the primary source. You're Always Broadcasting Whether you realise it or not, you're an emotional broadcaster.
Stop Being the Team Parent: 5 Game-Changing Ways to Turn Your Staff Into Accountability Ninjas
Let's be honest – you didn't sign up to be everyone's work mum or dad. Yet here you are, chasing deadlines like a sheepdog, sending reminder emails that could power a small village, and wondering why your team treats every commitment like a casual suggestion at a dinner party.
